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Updated: May 13, 2025
She could ingratiate herself with short-tempered and over-driven wives apparently without effort; surly husbands melted before her smile; sheepish young men forgot the encumbering existence of their hands and feet in her presence; and she was absolutely infallible with babies.
"All right, old-timer," grunted Mack. "Don't be so short-tempered about it." He let the mules go and they scrambled up the bank, drawing the wagon after them. The chest lay on the river's edge. Pratt Sanderson had climbed upon his pony again. "You two git, also," growled the man in the tree. "I got all I want of ye." Pratt groaned aloud as he urged the grey pony after Molly.
He was a short-tempered man of no great manners, and he only grunted his response. "They may well call you Camerons of the soft mouth," said Alasdair, angrily, "that would treat your comrades so." "You left us to carry our own men," said the chief, shortly; "we left you to find your own deer."
There were more nuts than he could possibly eat in one winter, and yet he wasn't willing that his cousin, Chatterer the Red Squirrel, should have a single one. Now Chatterer is short-tempered and a great scold. Some one or something had upset him this morning, and he was scolding as fast as his tongue could go, as he came running right towards the tree in which Happy Jack was sitting.
And, sometimes, as I said before, the outside dog is a short-tempered dog who hates a row, and never wants to have a disagreement with anybody like a good many peaceful men, who hate rows, and are always nice and civil and pleasant, in a nasty, unpleasant, surly, sneering sort of civil way that makes you want to knock their heads off; men who never start a row, but keep it going, and make it a thousand times worse when it's once started, just because they didn't start it and keep on saying so, and that the other party did.
Flogging still survived in the merchant service and was defended by captains otherwise humane, but a skipper, no matter how short-tempered, would be unlikely to abuse a youth whose parents might live on the same street with him and attend the same church. The Atlantic packets brought a different order of things, which was to be continued through the clipper era.
He laughed loudly; he could not help it at so prosaic a conclusion. "What carry-on is that on the stair on a Lord's day?" cried the Paymaster angrily and roughly from his room as he tugged short-tempered at the buckle of his Sabbath stock. "Then there's something bothering you, my dear," said Miss Mary again, paying no heed to the interruption.
Otter, who could go fishing in the spring-holes which had not frozen over, had full stomachs. "Now an empty stomach almost always makes a short temper. It is hard, very hard indeed to be hungry and good-natured at the same time. So as most of the people of the Green Forest were hungry all the time, they were also short-tempered all the time. Mr. Otter knew this.
The traders not only purchased what furs Robinson had on hand but also the two hind quarters of the deer which Mary was bringing home. Robinson at once began drinking the fire water which he had received as part payment. He was naturally irritable, and short-tempered even when sober, but he was much more so when under the influence of spirituous liquors.
"He's kinda short-tempered sometimes, but me, I understand him. And there ain't many of these here money kings that would sit up in a hospital the way he did with me." The mill yard had had quite enough of that night in the hospital.
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